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<\/p>\nRUSH: No help at Fox News calling the House race before votes had even stopped last night, and there they are bragging about their decision desk and how brilliant they are and how smooth running the thing was. But yet they\u2019re calling the House for the Democrats, what was it, 8 o\u2019clock, 8:30 or 9 o\u2019clock last night?<\/p>\n
When polls are still open in California, which was a crucial place for some of these House races? But not just California. Colorado, Arizona, any number of places. And there\u2019s Fox News Channel, “We declare that the House has gone to the Democrats!” Well, big whoop — and then you have the Never Trumper members of the Fox News decision desk on TV celebrating it and so forth. Democrats didn\u2019t win anything last night. The Republicans gave it away.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Arthur in Memphis. Welcome, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes, sir. Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. It is an honor to speak to you, and you\u2019d actually addressed the question before you left your last segment. But it just really angers me that they gave Bret Baier the order to call the race. They\u2019d only gained two seats in the House but yet they were already victorious. So what\u2019s that all about?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, what it\u2019s all about is they have their data. They have their decision desk and they\u2019ve got their 20 people in there, and they\u2019re analyzing all of the exit poll data, and then the hard returns that come in. They\u2019re looking at it all over the country, and they decided — based on the data — they had that the Democrats were going to retake the House. Fine. If that\u2019s what their data shows them, fine.<\/p>\n
They then decided, because of competitive things, to go ahead and announce it. I even… I think NBC might have gone first, and when that happened, then that forces others to say, “Oh, my God. NBC! We can\u2019t be seen to be trailing behind them. So if NBC called it…” Somebody called it first. I\u2019m not sure if Fox called it. If they called it first, it\u2019s still because of competitive circumstances, journalism. (interruption) Who called it first? (interruption) Fox called it first. So it\u2019s still competitive forces. “We want to be first! We\u2019ve got this; we want to be first with it.”<\/p>\n
Look, they knew. The people in their decision desk knew that if they didn\u2019t, somebody was, because they all had the same data. It\u2019s the same data. AP, all the networks fund exit polling. I don\u2019t care what new procedures were in place, they all get the same data. So they all know that they\u2019ve all got the same data. They can all see the same thing and make the same projections. So I don\u2019t think there was anything erroneous in their data.<\/p>\n
Turns out they were right. It\u2019s just they decided to make the call while voting was still open in over half the country, and I think what irritated a lot of people beyond that is that while they were doing this, they were all smiling about it. So it served to rub people wrong. I don\u2019t think that the data was fudged. It was what it was, and they know that they all have it. So they wanted to be first, beat the pack. Cal in Raleigh, you\u2019re next. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, thanks. I\u2019m doing great. I just want to comment that, you know, obviously we\u2019re disappointed that we\u2019ve lost the House. But the Republicans deserve everything that they got. They have not been there, unified for Trump the last two years.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, they certainly weren\u2019t the first year. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They haven\u2019t been able to handle the repeal of Obamacare. They have not been there for the wall. They never thought Trump was gonna win the election. They never had a plan, they never had procedures in place, and they drug their feet all the way to this election. So guess what? They deserve everything they got.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, yeah, in a manner of speaking. I think what it boils down to, folks, is that when you get to Washington — you get inside the Beltway, you get to the whole establishment — there\u2019s just a whole bunch of \u2019em that just don\u2019t see anything happening in the country as a real crisis, including immigration. And that\u2019s a disconnect between us and them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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